…the frigging Rubik’s Cube. Good god, I remember picking up my grandfather’s (or was it my uncle’s?) when I was a kid - I was probably 12 or something. We had a book back then that went through step by step each individual turn of the cube - one side, the first layer edges, then the corners, blah blah… what a headache - I still could never figure the damn thing out. Twenty years or so later, S buys me a cube of my very own - a “reward” of sorts, as I’d stopped smoking for a week. Have I been able to put it down? No. Am I hooked? Yes. It’s like a tiny multi-colored cube of solid crack - and I’m snorting it for hours each day. Yesterday I was twisting the little bastard from 1:30pm til 8:30pm… get a life, Brit, for fuck’s sake!

Anyway, due to some crazy ass gaseous smell that permeated throughout the City of New York today, our office closed and we were sent home, so I was fiddling with cube most of the day - about 4 hours to be honest. I’ve been trying to find a solid beginners solution website for a couple of days, and came across a very nice one today, which had me solving the Rubik crack cube in as little as 7 minutes! For a first timer, I don’t think that’s a bad time - so all I need to do from hereon is to keep solving, over and over, until I memorize the algorithms necessary to place the requisite 1st, 2nd and 3rd layer sides, then permute the final corners and edges - yeah, I used the freaking word “permute”!

So, S is going away this Wednesday through Monday, and I’ve promised myself that I’ll have it down, all memorized, by the weekend.

Rubik’s Cube - holy mother of god, what have I started…